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Period 5: Chapter 15: Reconstruction, [291 - 304]Us history Period 5: Chapter 15: Reconstruction, [291 - 304] class notes verified A+ Us history Period 5: Chapter 15: Reconstruction, [291 - 304] class notes verified A+ Period 5: Chapter 15: Reconstruction, [291 - 304] Due Date: 12/8 Reconstruction Plans of Lincoln and Johnson - Lincoln viewed Confed as disloyal minority - Lincoln’s Policies - Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863) - Lincoln set up process for political reconstruction--reconstructing state govs in South so that Unionists were in charge - Proclamation provided: - Full presidential pardons granted to most Conf. who took an oath of allegiance to the Union and US Constit and accepted the emancipation of slaves - A state gov could be reetablihed and accepted as legitimate by the US president as soon as >10% of the voters in that state took the loyalty oath - Proclamation meant that each state required to rewrite state constitution to eliminate slavery - Policy designed to shorten the war and give added weight to his Emancipation proclamation - Wade-Davis Bill (1864) - Many Repubs disagreed bc believed that it would give too much power to secessionists - Wade-Davis Bill proposed more demanding terms for Reconstruction - 50% of voters of a state to take a loyalty oath and only non-Confederates could voter for a new state constitution - LIncoln didn’t sign the bill - Tense situation over Recon policies between Lincoln and Congress - Freedmen’s Bureau - March 1865: Congress created new agency the Freedmen’s Bureau (the Bureau of Refugee, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands) - Acted as early welfare agency - provided food, shelter, and medical aid to newly freedmen who were struggling - Tried to resettle freed blacks but effort thwarted by president Johnson - Greatest success in education - General Oliver O. Howard led establishment of 3,000 schools for freed blacks - Taught approx. 200,000 Af Ams to read - Federal funding stopped in 1870 - Lincoln’s Last Speech - Last public address April 11, 1865 - Encouraged Southerners to accept Louisiana as a reconstructed state - Addresses controversial question of whether freedmen should be able to vote (yes) - Assassinated three days later - Johnson and Reconstruction - Southern Dem, White supremacist, clashed with congress about slavery issue - Johnson’s Reconstruction Policy - May 1865: Johnson issued own Recon proclamation similar to 10% plan - Provided for the disfranchisement (loss to vote and hold office) of all former leaders and officeholders of the Confed and Confederates with more than $20,000 in taxable property - President re

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